GENEVA, July 6. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin rules "a real empire," Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said.

Orban said that talking with the Russian president was "special."

"You can imagine behind him what he is ruling. <…> The territory, the people, the whole enormous geographic treasure what they have. So, it is a real empire. A man who rules a real empire," Orban said in an interview with Switzerland’s Die Weltwoche after his visit to Moscow.